I place documents into tagged group hierarchies. Assignment is done almost exclusively on the Mac. Recently, I noted that in DTTG, some of those group tags are missing. Upon closer inspection, it seems that in a hierarchy, every other tag is missing, with the directly enclosing group always shown. If the group tags assigned on DT for some item are:
a > ab > abc > abcd > item,
then the DTTG info panel for item shows
ab, abcd
and the others are missing. This happens across my databases. I removed one of them on my iPad and re-synced from the cloud, and this issue persisted.
I have notexcluded from tagging any of the involved groups, and on DT everything shows properly. Same issue on my iPad and iPhone.
DTTG 3.8.10(17484) on iOS and ipadOS 18.5
DT 4.0beta2 on macOS 15.5
Yes, it is. I have not had the time to update. This would imply some issue on the DT (Mac) side, and/or the sync store (that is presumably being coded/developed along DT, not DTTG). On the other hand, I took the iPad offline, and on the iPad replicated an item into a group deep in the hierarchy, and the problem persists, without the overt presence of DT.
I have no recollection if this issue was already present when I was still on DT3. I relatively rarely look at the tags in the DTTG info panel. And the immediate group holding the item is always correctly shown, so it’s easy to miss that higher up group tags are absent.
I will soon upgrade to beta3 and see what comes of that.
Really group tags (by disabling the option Exclude groups from tagging in File > Database Properties) or hierarchical ordinary tags (inside the Tags group)?
I apply most of them by pasting them as a “;” delimited list in the inspector (*). Group names are unique, so there is no ambiguity.
Again, within DT this all works great. And it is strange that every other tag from the group hierarchy is displayed in DTTG. I can’t come up with a user-caused mechanism that would do that: group tags for the same group appear (or not) depending on whether the item under consideration is an odd or even number of subgroup down the hierarchy.
(*) Off topic: Since I group-tag each item with typically half a dozen tags, DT lacks for me the tools to do that efficiently. Since my group structure is largely static by now, I have a Numbers spreadsheet of my group structure with checkboxes where I can check all applicable groups, and then the “;”-separated list is copied onto the clipboard, and from there to the DT inspector.
